Baird, I don't recognize the name so if you are new....Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of the CR list.
Edward Albert Chappaqua, New York, U.S.A.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Baird Webel <bjwebel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I do not get really this. I enjoy old bicycles, but guess I'm
> lacking a sentiment gene of some kind. (that was my excuse to my wife
> for forgetting our anniversary last year ;-)
>
> Take two identical bicycles, both with original, period correct parts.
> One was built that way by somebody buying a frame and parts 40-odd
> years ago. The other was built up by the same person through
> acquiring an equivalent frame and parts this year. Due to a serious
> financial reversal, he/she is forced to sell the bike, and really does
> need every penny available. It is a "crime" to sell one of these
> bicycles piece by piece, but perfectly ok to sell the other one that
> way? Even if in every other way they are identical physical objects?
> Does the sentiment change if even in parting the complete bike out,
> the seller gets less than the price that was initially paid, so
> there's no "profit" in the equation?
>
> And everybody who feels this way is willing to overbid for the Colnago
> now that he is selling it complete?
>
> Baird Webel
> ----
> Washington, DC
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM,
> <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:32:51 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [CR] 1972 COLNAGO SUPER PANTOGRAFATA is being sold complete
> > Normally, if it had been the seller who had built this bike from parts
> acquired over a period of time, he would be taking a huge hit by selling it
> complete. The only way to recover the investment would be to part it out
> again, provided he hadn't overpaid for any of the components out of
> desperation to complete the project. Conversely, parting out a significant
> original bike for profit would be a crime. Hopefully this seller at least
> recovers what he paid for it when he bought it, plus what he spent upgrading
> it.
> >
> > --
> > John Betmanis
> > Woodstock, Ontario
> > Canada